ChatGPT's terms of service allow commercial use and monetization. OpenAI doesn't prohibit making money with the tool, only reverse engineering, misuse, or infringing on others' rights. The speaker confirms this by checking the actual terms instead of guessing.
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Everybody wants to know, can you use ChatGPT in order to make money? Can you commercialize the use? Well, let's ask ChatGPT that very question. All right, can you use ChatGPT to make money? Yes, it is possible to use ChatGPT and other language models to make money. So this is what's happening in the market right now, is everyone is racing to figure out how to use ChatGPT to make money for themselves, and OpenAI allows you to do that. So let's take a look at the OpenAI terms of use. Keep in mind, this is not a license. You're not licensing the software, you're using their service. So what does OpenAI say about your ability to use ChatGPT and some of their other AI tools in order to make money and for other purposes? So look at— you can use the service for any purpose that you want, as long as it does not violate the terms of use. The terms of use do not preclude you from making money. So if you look at restrictions, you won't see any restriction on commercial use. You can't reverse engineer, you can't use it for improper purposes to infringe someone else's rights, but you can use ChatGPT for your own purposes to make money.